A new perspective on the Tarantula Nebula! 🕷 Thousands of never-before-seen young stars are spotted in this stellar nursery captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. In addition to young stars, Webb reveals distant background galaxies, as well as the detailed structure and composition of the nebula’s gas and dust. 🎥: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, ESO, E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. De Martin, D. Lennon, E. Sabbi, N. Bartmann, M. Zamani | Canadian Space Agency

Zooming in on the Tarantula Nebula 🔎 😍 The Tarantula Nebula is known for pumping out hefty stars. In fact, the most massive known star, RMC 136a1, lives in the Tarantula. But astronomers aren’t sure exactly how massive stars form. Models indicated they should be born in litters, but observations suggest a significant chunk of massive stars (up to about 10 percent) are born alone. ©️ European southern observatory(YouTube) #space #cosmos_explorer #astrophysics #astronomy #astrofacts #science #na